Introduction
Redefining the Pacific
323 Queen's Road,
Central, Hong Kong,
The Pacifican Islands
TO: The Multiverse
FROM: CEO Joseph Luc
Aloha,Welcome to the official storefront of Pacifican Airways, the proud flag carrier of the Pacifican Islands. I should introduce myself, I'm Joseph Luc, the CEO of Pacifican Airways since 1998. Since my father and his friend founded Pacifican Airways, then called Trans-Hawaiian, nearly 80 years ago, much has changed. Since then, we have grown from a small, sleepy airline to a international flag carrier boasting over 100 aircraft.
With so much change, Pacifican has always been in threat, from the collapse of Trans-Hawaiian in WW2 to the airliner boom of the 80s. However, we have worked hard, and we have always prevailed over our troubles, and we have fought to become the number one airline in the Pacific.
We ensure that all our passengers are safe, comfortable, and that our flights are all affordable. With our new eco-friendly measures, passengers can feel good about flying Pacifican.
I personally hope to see Pacifican grow to be the world's best airline, a dream my father held dearly.
Regards
Joseph Luc
As the nation's flag carrier, our airline fleet is based in the hubs of Honolulu International Airport, Hong Kong International Airport, and the more regional hub of Kaohsiung. These three hubs are the gateway from our nation to the world. The two hubs of Honolulu and Hong Kong are key to our domestic and international airlines, moreover they are important regional and global hub.
Pacifican Airways is the flag carrier of the nation, and is also the largest airline. Pacifican Airways operates a mainly long range wide body fleet, flying luxury international routes from Hong Kong, Honolulu and Kaohsiung.
Pacifican IslandHopper is a "regional feeder" airline, operating affordable yet comfortable routes from regional destinations not served by Pacifican Airways to major airline hubs.
Pacifican Cargo, more properly Pacifican Airways Cargo, is a service operating cargo aircraft from international and regional destinations. Most notably, one of the two A300-600 Belugas used by Pacifican Cargo is used to transfer rocket parts to Hilo Cosmodrome.
Pacifican Airways and Pacifican IslandHopper provides comfortable yet affordable service from the most isolated archipelago on the planet to anywhere else on earth. Explore regional destinations including the beautiful islands of Vanuatu, the city lights of Hong Kong, the cultural food in Taipei, and the sunny beaches of Honolulu. However, we recognize that we need to protect these places, and therefore we have modernized out fleet, serve the highest mixes of aircraft biofuel possible, and serve cultural dishes without all the clunky packaging. Join us in exploring the beauty of the Pacific, and help us keep it beautiful.
Noumea, New Caledonia Corporate
Pacifican Airways, Pacifican Cargo and Pacifican IslandHopper, collectively known as Pacifican Airways Corporation, is a subsidiary of Pacifican Airways Holdings, registered under Pacifican Hong Kong law in Hong Kong. Pacifican Airways, Pacifican IslandHopper, Pacifican Cargo has no legal standing outside of a unique brand name. Pacifican Airways and its associated brands, being the designated flag carriers of the nation, receives special financial protection from the government of the Federal Republic of the Pacifican Islands as a "vital corporation in the operation of the Pacifican Islands", under the
National Corporation Act of 1985.
History
Our first Boeing Clipper Our company was first founded in 1938 by two young men, John Luc and Kelly Chon, the former a Vietnamese immigrant who moved to the islands to pursue business. Kelly Chon was a Chinese-Hawaiian who formerly worked as a mail pilot. The two of them formed Pacifican Airways, then known as Trans-Hawaiian Airlines, serving a single route from Honolulu to Hilo. Trans-Hawaiian had only a old DC-3 aircraft, nicknamed the "Outrigger", but throughout 1938 the popularity of the route grew, and by 1940, Trans-Hawaiian purchased 7 additional DC-3 aircraft and a Boeing 314 Clipper. Trans-Hawaiian then was the most popular airline in Hawaii and some of the Asia-Pacific, running routes between all Hawaiian Islands and a single route from Honolulu to Hong Kong. The airline kept expanding until 1941, the year when the US base in Pearl Harbor was attacked. On that same fateful day a DC-3 on a route from Honolulu to Lahaina, Maui, was shot down, with the loss of all those aboard. 11 hours before that incident, the Boeing 314 Clipper was caught trying to escape captured Japanese Hong Kong when it was also shot down, with the loss of all aboard. Trans-Hawaiian went out of business and delivered all of its remaining aircraft to the military except one, the first DC-3. During the whole war, one last commercial flight between Honolulu and Hilo took place, signalling the end of a era.
In 1972, after a brutal communist rule of the nation after the war, which prevented the creation of another airline post-war, the two men came together once more and created Pacifican Airways, a "restart" of Trans-Hawaiian. Using a offshore bank account of the money they earned with Trans-Hawaiian, "illegal" during the communist rule, the men bought some modern jet aircraft with the money and benefits the new Federal Republic gave to new companies. Pacifican Airways was a immediate success, with hundreds boarding every day, flying to contact their loved ones separated on the different islands during the communist rule. By 1977 regular flights by 747 aircraft to and from the nations and cities around the Pacific were a reality. In 1986, Pacifican was granted the title of "flag carrier", with two airlines, Oceanic Airlines and Pacifican Airways competing. In 1991, Captain Kaori Musakori, a pilot of a 747, made international news by safely water-landing a crippled aircraft a few miles from Honolulu Airport. In 1998, Pacifican finally went public, and that same year the two men finally gave the title of CEO to Mr. Luc's child, Joseph Luc. Since 1998 the company has started to expand dramatically, serving domestic and international routes, and creating the subsidiary of Pacifican IslandHopper, a domestic island hopping airline. Even with all these changes, however, Pacifican Airways has always stayed to its roots, its Hawaiian ohana, and the name "Outrigger", lives on in its newest aircraft, a 787-8.